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Thematic Book Lists

The links below are to thematic book lists on a variety of topics. Each list contains brief annotations and links to the books recommended.

Books for Math
  • 100th Day of School
  • Big and Little (Books about relative size)
  • Calendar (Days, Months, Years)
  • Math Poetry
  • Measurement
  • Shapes
  • Time

Books for Science
  • Animal Adaptations
  • Animal Dads
  • Animal Habitats
  • Animal Homes
  • Apples and Pumpkins
  • Birds (Poetry Books)
  • Camouflage
  • Dinosaurs
  • Early Life (Eggs, Life Cycles)
  • Earthquakes
  • Electricity
  • Five Senses
  • Food Chains and Food Webs
  • Frogs (and Toads)
  • Hibernation
  • Migration
  • Outdoor Education
  • Poop and Other Related Topics
  • Science Poetry
  • Seasons - Fall
  • Seeds and Growing Things
  • Snow and Snowflakes
  • Trees

Books for Social Studies
  • 50 States
  • African American Scientists and Inventors
  • Change Over Time
  • China
  • Constitution Day
  • Immigration (Contemporary)
  • Map Skills
  • School Around the Globe

Other Lists
  • Aesop's Fables
  • Monster Poetry
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Blogs I Read

Below you will find links to some of the many blogs I enjoy reading. They are broken down into categories and include only the TEN MOST RECENT POSTS. You will find blogs written by teachers, librarians, homeschoolers, parents, authors, illustrators and many other folks who share a love for children's literature. Enjoy!

Nonfiction

  • Consider the Source
    Rally for NYC Public Libraries; Christopher Awards Gala
    23 hours ago
  • I.N.K.
    When Writers Take Vacations
    1 day ago
  • The Nonfiction Detectives
    Common Core IRL: In Real Libraries- Frogs!
    3 days ago

Poetry

  • David L. Harrison's Blog
    Baby wrens
    12 hours ago
  • Poetry for Children
    Ms. Neeland's Green Screen Mo Po Poetry Project
    1 day ago
  • my juicy little universe
    out of time
    1 day ago
  • Playing by the book
    Want to know what these have in common?
    1 day ago
  • The Poem Farm
    New Puppies and Third Grade Poets
    1 day ago
  • Random Noodling
    Poetry Friday--"Cultivation"
    1 day ago
  • GottaBook
    Banana Stickers
    3 days ago
  • CRACKLES OF SPEECH
    POEM: First Saddle Sonnet
    4 days ago
  • Author Amok
    Portrait Poetry Friday: Starting with What's Real
    1 week ago
  • Wild Rose Reader
    PUDDLE MUDDLE: An Original Poem
    3 weeks ago
  • How a Poem Happens
    Judson Mitcham
    3 weeks ago
  • Florian Cafe
    Earth Day Mirth Day
    4 weeks ago
  • Write Time
    5 weeks ago
  • Drift Record / Julie Larios
    Poetry Friday: Happy Birthday, Mr. Heaney
    5 weeks ago
  • Poetry at Play
    The Horn Book Recommends Poetry for National Poetry Month
    5 weeks ago
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The Poetry Princesses

  • Tanita Davis' blog
    {what we mean when we say we’re ‘blessed’}
    1 day ago
  • laurasalas: writing the world for kids
    [poem starter audio] You’d Better Be Scared (by me)
    1 day ago
  • Writing and Ruminating
    At the new Belmar boardwalk with AT THE BOARDWALK
    2 days ago
  • a wrung sponge
    Review and Giveaway: Ferdinand Fox’s First Summer
    1 week ago
  • Liz In Ink
    Haiku 19 -- April 19, 2013
    4 weeks ago
  • Read Write Believe
    "Clear Thinking about Mixed Feelings": A Guest Post at Teachers Write
    11 months ago

Reading Inclusively

  • PaperTigers Blog
    Heigh ho, heigh ho, it’s off to the Asian Festival of Children’s Content we go!
    10 hours ago
  • I'm Here. I'm Queer. What the Hell do I read?
    The Thousand Natural Shocks - 13 Year Old Charles (Who's Secretly Gay) Doesn't Fit In At His High School... So He Goes To Military School, and It's Even Worse... at First
    1 day ago
  • Guys Lit Wire
    Manhattan Projects Volume 1: Science Bad by Jonathan Hickman
    1 day ago
  • WOW Currents
    The Choice to Make a Difference: No Crystal Stair
    5 days ago
  • readergirlz
    Rgz Salon: Lyn Miller-Lachmann Reviews The Language Inside by Holly Thompson
    1 week ago
  • mitali's fire escape
    You're Invited: PEN New England Discovery Award Event 5/19
    1 week ago
  • American Indians in Children's Literature
    Cynthia Leitich Smith on Gansworth's IF I EVER GET OUT OF HERE
    1 week ago
  • Brown Bookshelf
    Children’s Book Week 2013: Send Us Your Shout-Outs!
    1 week ago
  • The Elephant Rag
    Outstanding International Books 2013 on Google Maps
    2 weeks ago
  • Black Threads in Kid's LIt
    Coretta Scott King Awards - Statistics 1970 - 2012
    4 months ago
  • TheHappyNappyBookseller
    Cornered: 14 Stories of Bullying and Defiance
    9 months ago
  • Color Online
    Books Can Not Be Cancelled (Kyra Davis Keeps em Coming)
    1 year ago
  • "Brown Like Me" Book Reviews
    The Little Red Hen
    1 year ago
  • AAKidsBookTalks
    New Step at Longfellow High
    1 year ago
  • The Sydney Taylor Book Award
    Sydney Taylor Book Award Committee Call for Submissions
    2 years ago
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For and From the Classroom

  • Carol's Corner
    POETRY FRIDAY- SOMETHING FISHY
    1 day ago
  • Year of Reading
    Poetry Friday -- Think For Yourself
    1 day ago
  • Anastasia Suen's Blog
    10 Plants That Shook The World
    1 day ago
  • educating alice
    Africa is My Home: The Cover! The Book Trailer!
    2 days ago
  • Elementary, My Dear, or Far From It
    Running Alongside
    3 days ago
  • The Classroom Bookshelf
    Ben Rides On
    5 days ago
  • Picture This! Teaching with Picture Books
    Memoirs of a Hamster by Devin Scillian
    1 week ago
  • Teach with Picture Books
    We've Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children's March
    3 weeks ago
  • Write Now In Room 204...
    Imagination + Inspiration = Impact
    4 weeks ago
  • Literate Lives
    Middle School Transition Can Be Tough
    1 month ago
  • Katie's Literature Lounge
    Last Minute Easter Picks for Your Little Peeps!
    1 month ago
  • PlanetEsme Plan
    2 months ago
  • My Breakfast Platter
    Loving Jack
    2 months ago
  • My World-Mi Mundo
    My Reading Life
    8 months ago
  • Classroom Book of the Week
    INTERVIEW WITH AUTHOR CAROLYN COMAN AND ILLUSTRATOR ROB SHEPPERSON
    1 year ago
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Librarians of All Sorts

  • BooksForKidsBlog
    Battle of the Imaginary Buddies: Pingo and the Playground Bully by Brandon Mull
    13 hours ago
  • Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast
    Celebrate the Life of One of Children’sLiterature’s Luminaries: A Peter Sieruta Event
    20 hours ago
  • Check It Out
    Poetry Friday: Library Books
    21 hours ago
  • Waking Brain Cells
    Review: Scaredy Squirrel Goes Camping by Melanie Watt
    1 day ago
  • MotherReader
    Poetry Friday: Follow, Follow
    1 day ago
  • A Patchwork of Books
    Sleeping in Eden Giveaway!
    1 day ago
  • A Chair, A Fireplace & A Tea Cozy
    Review: The Plantagenets
    1 day ago
  • Wendie's Wanderings
    Poetry lessons from author/poet Nikki Grimes
    1 day ago
  • 100 Scope Notes
    One Star Review Guess Who (#6)
    1 day ago
  • Pink Me
    Something is wrong with the Internet today - everything is cool
    2 days ago
  • TEACHERNINJA
    What School Leaders Need to Know About Digital Technologies and Social Media
    2 days ago
  • Fuse #8 Production
    Show Me the Awesome: Children’s Librarians Can Do Anything
    3 days ago
  • Kiddosphere @ Fauquier
    National Endangered Species Day
    4 days ago
  • readerbuzz
    Judge-a-Book-by-Its-Cover Covers
    4 days ago
  • Book-A-Day Almanac
    Tomorrow, When the War Began
    5 days ago
  • Book Moot
    1 month ago
  • Library By Any Other Name
    Turning the Page
    1 year ago
  • What Adrienne Thinks About That
    Arts and Crafts
    2 years ago
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Children's and YA

  • Becky's Book Reviews
    Library Loot: Third Trip in May
    19 hours ago
  • Books Together Blog
    How to Draw a Bear
    20 hours ago
  • Charlotte's Library
    The Spies of Gerander--brave young mice ftw!
    22 hours ago
  • Shelf Elf: read, write, rave.
    For Graduates, big and small: The World is Waiting for You
    1 day ago
  • Jen Robinson's Book Page
    Links I Shared on Twitter this Week: May 24
    1 day ago
  • emilyreads
    Peanut: Review Haiku
    1 day ago
  • books4yourkids
    P.S. Be Eleven, by Rita Williams Garcia, 274 pp, RL 4
    1 day ago
  • Finding Wonderland: The WritingYA Weblog
    Thursday Review: THE SHORT SELLER by Elissa Brent Weissman
    1 day ago
  • Great Kid Books
    Reading aloud about frogs: The Common Core IRL
    2 days ago
  • Well-Read Child
    Still Here
    2 days ago
  • Chasing Ray
    Andrea Barrett finds The Polar Bear Expedition & her story is amazing
    4 days ago
  • excelsior file
    if you want to see a whale
    2 weeks ago
  • Book Scoops
    Princess April Morning Glory by Letitia Fairbanks
    5 weeks ago
  • Book Aunt
    Thank You's, Goodbye's, and Archives
    5 weeks ago
  • Cybils
    Marilyn Singer Q&A
    1 month ago
  • Chicken Spaghetti
    Ides of March Award Roundup, 3.15.13
    2 months ago
  • BookKids Recommends
    Teen Event: Michael Scott
    11 months ago
  • Joy of Children's Literature
    June is Audiobook Month! Listen free..
    11 months ago
  • Young Readers
    A Nest In Springtime
    1 year ago
  • Read Roger
    This blog has moved
    1 year ago
  • jama rattigan's alphabet soup
    alphabet soup has moved to wordpress!
    1 year ago
  • Write for a Reader
    I Can Breathe Again...For Now
    2 years ago
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Author/Illustrator Types

  • Writers Read
    Kit Reed
    4 hours ago
  • Original Content
    Connecticut Literary News
    18 hours ago
  • Laini Taylor's blog
    German Secret Cover
    22 hours ago
  • CYNSATIONS
    Cynsational News & Giveaways
    1 day ago
  • Kirby's Lane: A Place for Readers and Writers
    Friend Friday
    1 day ago
  • gracenotes
    fortune cookie friday
    1 day ago
  • Greetings from Nowhere
    Things I Love Thursday
    2 days ago
  • Bartography
    “For More About Reconstruction”
    4 days ago
  • Blue Rose Girls
    Best Books for Babies! (or at least for mine)
    5 days ago
  • Neil Gaiman's Journal
    A giant TOUR catch up. Also, we wear the same boots.
    1 week ago
  • Painting Bunnies
    Painting
    2 weeks ago
  • Susan Writes
    Of Dogs and Writing - The End of a Chapter
    4 months ago
  • Adventures at Wilder Farm
    Summer
    8 months ago
  • Loree Griffin Burns: Reader, Writer, Scientist
    My New Place
    1 year ago
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On Writing and Publishing

  • Teaching Authors--6 Children's Authors Who Also Teach Writing
    Now Where Did Those Books Go?
    1 day ago
  • Brooklyn Arden
    All About THE FIRE HORSE GIRL: Behind the Book, Q&A, & Giveaway!
    1 day ago
  • Fiction Notes
    Only 7% of Children’s Books are Authored by Persons of Color
    3 days ago
  • Nathan Bransford - Blog
    Imagining a Post-Amazon World
    4 days ago
  • Children's Writing Web Journal
    Video Quickie: How to See the World Through the Eyes of a Writer
    1 week ago
  • Vivian Lee Mahoney
    Tavi Gevinson: Still Figuring it Out
    3 weeks ago
  • THE WRITE SISTERS
    I [We] Leave and Heave a Sigh...
    3 months ago
  • Editorial Anonymous
    My First App
    2 years ago

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